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by adekok 11y ago
Because the rest is cold . ... says the guy who used to bicycle to university in -37C (-45 with wind chill!) Fun fact: the plastic buckles on knapsacks will shatter like glass in -45 weather. Try biking to school while holding a knapsack
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by adekok 11y ago
Nothing like taking raw data off of the network, unchecked, and passing it to malloc(). I used to work with a programmer who never wrote bounds checking or error checking code. You could pass his programs anything and they'd do some
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by adekok 11y ago
Hmm... $43 for a 23 mile range, or $249 for a 2 mile range. Sometimes improved technology isn't the right solution.
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Sprout Life – Conways Game of Life with mutation(github.com)
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by adekok 11y ago
> I don't see this Try sitting on an open source mailing list sometime. :(
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by adekok 11y ago
The example was just that.. an example. And a short one at that. It was intended to be illustrative, and not a definitive overview of the problem. In short, the answer you give doesn't matter. What matters is the attitude of the que
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by adekok 11y ago
I agree 100%. I run into this every day. The people who give up their ego and follow methodology, logic, etc. get things done. The people who have an attitude don't get things done. Even worse, they often accuse everyone else of bein
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by adekok 11y ago
> You ask a complex question and they ask you why you're doing it. As someone on the other side of those questions, perhaps I can explain. Very often, people unfamiliar with a subject area ask questions about solutions, instead of a
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by adekok 11y ago
Can you use the systems rules to work around the system? My guess would be "no". The rules are interpreted by the system to benefit the system. If this means that the rules are arbitrary, capricious, and inconsistent... so be it
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by adekok 11y ago
> Bear in mind that Jerry Pournelle is a very right wing guy and was right wing at the time of the Vietnam war, so he looks for confirmation of his own pro war views. That means you have to read his work with a critical eye. It doesn&#x
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by adekok 11y ago
I'm reminded of an article I read in one of Jerry Pournelle's anthologies. It was written by a Vietnamese man who had agitated against the Americans during the Vietnam war. At one point, he was in jail for resisting the Americans
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by adekok 11y ago
No. I'm saying that the legal system (flawed as it is) is the best way we have to determine culpability. I am capable of making moral judgements on my friends, but it is much harder to make moral judgements about public figures. I
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by adekok 11y ago
> if you don't want to risk having a child, don't have sex. ... which applies only to one sex. Women can have an abortion, and choose to not be a parent. Men can't. That doesn't sound like equality to me. Western c
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by adekok 11y ago
> It may be worth noting here that child support is considered to be something to which the child is entitled That's only half true. The truth is that the father is entitled to pay, in the "best interests of the child".
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by adekok 11y ago
The phrase "innocent until proven guilty" seems appropriate here.
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by adekok 11y ago
That's why it's also different from him buying a tape of the game from the NFL, and then re-selling it. When you buy a tape, CD, book, etc., you have the right to re-sell it. As-is, without making a copy. If his father had been a
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by adekok 11y ago
I've used autotools for >15 years now. My $0.02 is the following: - autoconf is horrible but useful. It's bloated, slow, obtuse, and hard to use. But it encapsulates a portability layer which was useful 15 years ago... and l
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by adekok 11y ago
It was from memory.. it's FUSSP: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
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by adekok 11y ago
Having been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items: 1) Do you have a solution to one piece of the spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you don't solve the whole
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by adekok 11y ago
When you visit a web site, you trust that it will give you the data you ask, and hopefully not a lot more. You hope that it doesn't give you viruses. Sites that do are not trusted. Sites that don't are... not untrusted. :( Yo
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by adekok 11y ago
Does it violate your trust to scan anyone who does NTP queries? a) I never trusted them, so this is fine and to be expected b) I sort of trusted them, so this is surprising and not polite. I lean towards (b).
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by adekok 11y ago
You trust them to give you a correct time. That's at least a bit more trust than you give any other random IP address.
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by adekok 11y ago
We've gone from anonymous people scanning you, to semi-trusted people scanning you. The mantra of the new Internet is "Trust no one". :(
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by adekok 11y ago
The Australian aborigines have told the same stories for 10,000 years: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-t... The same for India: http://www.earthporm.com/5-mind-blowing-underwa
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by adekok 11y ago
I like the simplicity of the simulation. My take-away is that each station needs to plan for average throughput, not for capacity. The problem is that you don't know what average throughput is until you run the system in production.
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by adekok 11y ago
> my "college" or middle school equivalent (which I won't name and shame) in Grenoble Uh... OK. My experience was at Ecole Rue Millet, next to Place Vaucanson :)
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by adekok 11y ago
My experience in California was light years from my experience in France. The bulk of school lunches provided by the parents were low-grade junk food. Sugar, snacks, and empty calories. The kids with vegetables and a balanced diet were i
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by adekok 11y ago
All French public schools have an in-school cafeteria where food is prepared fresh every day. High income parents get billed for this, or they can supply lunch themselves. Low income parents didn't pay.
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by adekok 11y ago
I spent years living in France, and my daughter went to kindergarten and grade one there. The lunches were insane . A 3 year-old can expect a five course meal every day. Prepared fresh on-site. Different every day of the month. The scho
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by adekok 11y ago
I'll respond to myself instead of to your response to me. You're getting downvoted enough that I can't reply. In short, you don't seem to understand or care that your attitude leads to dictatorship and oppression. I ha

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